Rebirth of Yijia

Chapter 152

Zhou Chengchi thought about it and decided to hide the matter from Liang Mingzhi.

Although he is only a small sixth-rank secretary, he also found out that the Kang family may not end well this time. The imperial examination fraud, Kang Zhengfang, the chief examiner, has nothing to do with it, but his short-sighted grandson also Lean up!This is not suicidal what is it?
He has been in the prison for almost half a month, and there were people who wanted to rescue him, but gradually, even those who were related to the Kang family became silent.

Mrs. Kang stayed behind closed doors. The two married daughters of the Kang family had been living in her natal home for four or five days.

He could no longer be indecisive.

It is impossible to expect the second younger brother to come forward to identify Kang Zhengfang, so he has to write a letter of love himself.Ran Zhifeng was satisfied by covering up the truth of Ran's death.He also saved his second brother and the entire Zhou family.

Ran Zhifeng got the letter of love, read it hastily, and immediately sent it to the fourth prince's residence in person, and handed it over to Qi Zhi.

Qi Zhi only took a glance, then patted the table and laughed loudly, "Okay! Okay! Master Ran, after this matter is completed, I will definitely treat you well!"

Ran Zhifeng immediately said: "Sharing Your Highness's worries is what I should do, and I dare not ask for rewards." As long as the crown prince is successfully brought down this time, the original crown prince and the third prince will have no chance, and the second prince will have been imprisoned long ago. There is only one adult prince, the fourth prince.

When the fourth prince succeeds to the throne, he will definitely have what he deserves.

Qi Zhi glanced at him with satisfaction, and walked out with the letter of love.

The staff outside the door immediately followed after seeing it, and replied in a low voice: "Your Highness, dozens of candidates have already confessed, and they bought the answer sheets from the servants of Kang Qikun, the uncle of the Kang family, and recited them day and night after returning home. It was written silently in the examination room. As for Qin Yuan and Li Shu, they had already confessed to it. As long as Zhou Chengyan confessed, Qin Yuan and Li Shu would immediately commit suicide in fear of crime. It will eventually become a piece of waste paper!"

Qi Zhi nodded, and ordered him in a low voice, "I'm going into the palace now, and hand over Zhou Chengchi's love letter. Zhou Chengyan, when I come out of the palace, you send in the forged suicide note immediately, and he keeps it in the way!"

"Yes!" The aide should be, and bowed to send Qi Zhi out.

In the prison, however, dozens of pleaders were brought out. Kang Qikun, who was tortured to the point of unconsciousness, was held up by two jailers. A group of people followed a servant, crossed the long palace road, and entered the prison. Went to the Royal Study Room.

The emperor in his early fifties sat at the head, looking at his fifth son expressionlessly, "Prince, what exactly did you find?"

Prince Qi Zhan said loudly: "Father, my son has found out the truth about the imperial examination fraud case."

The emperor raised his eyebrows and was about to ask a question, the prince clapped his hands, the door of the imperial study opened again, and Feng Zhou walked in slowly with the dean of Bieshan Academy on his arm.

"Li Huaiyuan!" The emperor cried out.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, it is Caomin!" Li Huaiyuan, the dean of Bieshan Academy, pushed Feng Zhou away, and stumbled to the ground.

"What's the matter with you?" Li Huaiyuan used to be Tanhua Lang of the previous dynasty, and he was a good brother with the emperor who was the prince back then.After the emperor came to the throne, Li Huaiyuan did not enter the court as an official because he married the daughter of a guilty minister, but he opened Bieshan Academy and became the dean of teaching and educating people.

The emperor still remembered that when Li Huaiyuan left, he said that in this life, he could not be by his side and be used by him, but he could cultivate thousands of pillars of the country for him.

This also makes the emperor not regret helping him marry his current wife, but Li Huaiyuan is four years younger than himself, how could he become what he is now?
Li Huaiyuan didn't get up, but kowtowed, "Your Majesty, I'm sorry for you!" Although he lowered his head, he pointed his hand accurately at the kneeling disciples next to him, "Your Majesty, that's him, that's me!" They... Caomin were persecuted by the fourth prince, and it was because of them that they took three articles from Caomin..."

The fourth prince Qi Zhi hastily entered the imperial study, but there was no figure of the emperor on the bright yellow seat behind the desk.The eunuch standing on the side pointed to the inner room behind which the curtain was lowered, "The emperor is inside, what do you want to present to the emperor, first hand it over to the servant, and the servant will pass it over." After speaking, his face wrinkled, indicating that the emperor was angry.

Qi Zhi looked at Minghuang's curtains, reached into his arms and handed Zhou Chengchi's letter of love.

Father was angry about this matter, handed over the love letter, maybe father would kill Kang Zhengfang in a fit of anger.As long as Kang Zhengfang is dead, he doesn't pay much attention to the boss of the Kang family and an unworthy Kang Qikun.

The inner room was quiet at first, and then there was indeed the sound of teacups being smashed.Qi Zhi smiled imperceptibly, and raised his foot to go in.

But the eunuch hurried out to stop him, "Fourth prince, the emperor ordered you to go to the Kang family immediately and arrest everyone in the Kang family!"

The Kang family has a constant relationship with the empress and the former princess, and Kang Zhengfang is a veteran of the two dynasties. Although he did such a foolish thing before he was old, if the whole family was involved, trouble might arise.Qi Zhi subconsciously wanted to intercede for Kang's family, but there were more sounds of teacups falling from the inner room, accompanied by the emperor's rough roar when he was furious.

Qi Zhi was taken aback, and he didn't dare to offend the emperor at this moment, he said "I will take my leave" and hurried out of the imperial study.

Qi Zhi stepped out of the imperial study room with his front foot, and just as the smile appeared on his face, the aides who had been sent to the prison of Dali Temple waved his hands and led him into the prison himself.

Some people went to ask for the lives of Qin Yuan and Li Shu, while the aides went to Zhou Chengyan's cell in person.

The jailer opened the door, and the staff walked in, kicked Zhou Chengyan who was lying down casually, then took out the suicide note he had prepared from his cuff, and threw it on Zhou Chengyan.

Some servants had already prepared the crude pens, inks, papers and inkstones supplied in the cell, but the staff kicked the inkstone over with their feet, and the ink spilled out, staining the straw black.

"Master Zhou, you can go with peace of mind!" said the staff member: "It is not possible to put you to death, but you just don't cooperate... But don't worry, you are dead and have a suicide note. Is your family okay?" will be implicated."

Zhou Chengyan sat up slowly, opened the suicide note, and changed his expression after reading halfway.Quickly tore the paper into pieces with both hands, "You want me to identify the teacher, you are dreaming!" Then he raised his finger to the staff, "Who are you, why did you forge my suicide note, and why did you ask me to identify the teacher again!"

Kang Zhengfang was imprisoned, but he refused to plead guilty. Zhou Chengyan only found out about it recently.Regardless of whether the teacher really did this, or was wronged by others, at most he would remain silent, but he would not speak out to identify the teacher.What's more, the teacher pleaded not guilty, maybe there is something hidden in it.

The staff took out a suicide note from their cuffs again, looked around, and smiled, "It doesn't matter if I ask you to be a fool, there are people from the fourth prince all over this Dali Temple, so if you are sensible, It’s best to end it on your own early. Otherwise, not only you, but your family will not end well either!”

"Oh, is it?" A deep and majestic voice sounded, "What will happen to you?"

"Who would dare..." The staff turned around, only to see the emperor in plain clothes appearing at the door of the cell at some point, looking at him as if he was looking at a dead person.

"... Your Majesty!" The staff member knelt down on the ground, trembling with fright, "Your Majesty, this matter, this matter is a misunderstanding... It is the method that the fourth prince thought of, yes, yes, it is the method of trial. So ...In this way, Master Zhou will no longer refuse to cooperate, but will honestly explain the truth about the fraudulent imperial examination..."

"Bastard! I heard it with my own ears, but you still want to lie to me. Could it be that in the eyes of the fourth son, I am so old and foolish?!" The emperor sternly shouted: "Come on, drag him down! Go to the fourth son again!" Prince's Mansion, bring that bastard to me in the imperial study, I want to ask him personally if I, the emperor, are really old and foolish in his eyes!"

Before the staff begged for mercy, they were dragged down by the guards who followed the emperor.

Liang Mingzhi said at the right time, "Your Majesty, Lord Zhou's side..."

The emperor looked at Zhou Chengyan, who was kneeling on the ground. Although he was covered in blood from the beating, he still stood up straight without being humble or arrogant, and said indifferently: "Take him out to freshen up, and send him back to the imperial study. I will interrogate him myself."

As soon as Qi Zhi arrived at the gate of the mansion, he was caught by the guards in the palace.

"What are you doing!" He is the prince, who are these people... how dare they treat him like this!

The leading guard said: "Fourth prince, the emperor has something to ask you, I am only following orders, and I hope the fourth prince will cooperate."

"Bastard!" Qi Zhi struggled, "I'm the prince. If the emperor wants to ask questions, he will naturally call me over. Why did you ask you to come..."

"Fourth prince." The eunuch with a soft voice interrupted Qi Zhi, "The emperor is in a fit of anger. If you don't want to lose your life, you should go honestly!"

"You..." Qi Zhi almost fell on the bodyguard beside him. Just now in the imperial study, it was the eunuch who helped hand over the letter of love, but now...

The eunuch smiled and told Qi Zhi the truth, "Fourth prince, the one who was in the imperial study just now was not the emperor, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. The emperor went to Dali Temple."

what?
Father went to Dali Temple!
Then they... did it?

The fourth prince lowered his hands weakly, completely weakened his legs and feet, and fell on the guard beside him.

The investigation of the imperial examination fraud case is over, and it is not the chief examiner Kang Zhengfang who leaked the exam questions, but two fellow examiners Li Shu Qinyuan, who obeyed the order of the fourth prince and leaked the exam questions to Li Huaiyuan, the dean of Bieshan Academy.

Li Huaiyuan didn't know the truth, but felt that the topic was quite good, so he asked his most proud student, Kang Qikun, to write three essays with the same exam question.

After the three articles were confiscated, Li Huaiyuan was also killed, but the crown prince had already arranged for someone to rescue him.He also asked Feng Zhou, who was studying at Bieshan Academy, to take care of him until Qi Zhi made the last move, and then he revealed his trump card.

Li Shu from Qinyuan was sentenced to death, while the fourth prince, Qi Zhi, was imprisoned for life just like the second prince.The Kang family, Mr. Kang was released without charge, the official was restored, and the young master of the Kang family was also released without charge.The results of the imperial examination are all invalidated, and another meeting will be held in two months. Kang Qikun was named by the emperor and must attend.

In the evening three days later, Zhou Chengyan was sent back to Zhou Family West Mansion by the people of Anping Hou Mansion.

(End of this chapter)